One Malicious Fire Alarm In 45
Maitland Fire Brigade attended 45 fires last year, none serious, the annual report said yesterday. A few accidental false alarms…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Diamond Rings Saved From Shop Fire
MELBOURNE: Diamond rings worth £1000 were recovered intact from a safe at Wishart's jewellery shop after a £10,000…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused early to-day, when fire destroyed two shops and a dwelling…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4. A.A.P.—The three-man cease-fire group reported to the United Nations Political Committee yesterday that it…
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LONDON.—Mrs. Alice Bell. 75, was led down the smoke-filled stairs to the street by the shop staff when fire broke out…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A man to-night saw his £2000 speedboat sink in 20 feet of water after firemen had quelled a blaze aboard the…
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EVANSVILLE (Indiana), Jan. 5. A.A.P.—A fire which swept through the heart of the business district of Evansville caused damage…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A fire to-day swept through a storeroom used by Metal and Celluloid Pty. Ltd. at Alexandria. Firemen put out the…
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SYDNEY.—The Board of Fire Commissioners and the Fire Brigades Employees' Union Executive will meet late today…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Firemen smashed into a storeroom at En-more and removed jars of explosive cyanide acid during a fire which…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Firemen were hampered by about 100 cars attracted to a blazing cottage in London-road, Berala, to-night…
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Newcastle City Council's contribution to the Board of Fire Commissioners for 1951 would be £9468, being 12½ per cent. on the…
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LONDON.—Stocks of timber, valued at between £20,000 and £30,000, were destroyed in a fire at the premises of John Sadd,…
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Brigades attended five bush and grass fires in the Newcastle area yesterday. The fires were put out before doing damage…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Members of the Board of Fire Commissioners to-day refused to attend a conference called by the Chief Secretary…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Police late to-night charged a man with arson following a fire in a flat above a butcher's shop in King-street,…
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A section of Bellbird mine has been sealed off because of fire in part of the workings. The miners' District Check…
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PARIS, Jan. 14. A.A.P.—Thirty of 50 passengers perished when a Vietnamese steamer Trung Viet caught fire on January 8 off…
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SINGAPORE, Jan. 14. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Rubber valued at about £230,000 was destroyed by a fire which gutted a Penang factory…
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An electrical fault in connecting lines sent fire engines from Cook's Hill and Hamilton brigades racing out today on a…
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